Controlling Opinions is a recurring series by Richard Re that explores the interaction of law, ideology, and discretion at ...

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether the issue concerns abortion, the scope of federal agencies, the death penalty ...

BURLINGTON U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia brought his legal doctrine of constitutional originalism to the University of Vermont on Friday. Speaking before a full house of about ...

After her fourth term on the bench, Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett is asserting her voice and following in the footsteps of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a pioneer of originalism ...

Justice Antonin Scalia holds himself out as the patron saint of originalism, the idea that judges should interpret the Constitution according to its original public meaning. To do otherwise, he adds, ...

NPR's Nina Totenberg explains how the idea that the Constitution is "not living but dead" transformed the Supreme Court during Antonin Scalia's... Originalism: A Primer On Scalia's Constitutional ...

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Ten years ago today, my old boss Supreme Court Justice Antonin “Nino” Scalia passed away. At the time of his death, it was clear that he was already one of the most influential justices ever to serve ...

Gregory J. Sullivan says the Supreme Court’s originalist majority has betrayed the originalist project in their Second Amendment cases, which, he says, are a cover for the “exercise of raw judicial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An obscure ideology most people have never heard of is dominating almost every aspect of American life. Nearly every important ...

Three Supreme Court justices wrote tributes to the late Justice Antonin Scalia in the April Yale Law Journal lauding his lasting influence on the law. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Sonia ...